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to college education. We argue that Duncan and Hoffman's augmented wage equation "the workhorse model in the …
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, education has, so far, received less attention - a surprising oversight, given the field's key interest in long-run decision … behavioral economics of education. We first develop a general framework for thinking about why youth and their parents might not … always take full advantage of education opportunities. We then discuss how these behavioral barriers may be preventing some …
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This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and...
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The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a credible counterfactual of what the person and their...
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This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
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